Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Besides, she had survived the searingly hot nights, when sleep was rendered impossible, by reading a miasma of English novels by Jane… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And he went on reading. His lips twitched. It filled him. It fortified him. He clean forgot all the little rubs and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
